Open Synaptic (Package Manager). Click 'Settings | Repositories'. On the 'LinuxMint Software' tab, next to 'Download from:' click on the down arrow, select: 'other...'. Click on the 'Select Best Server' button. Wait. When scan is done, click on 'Choose Server'. Close. Refresh 'Synaptic'.

in mint 13 kde the synaptic package manager is not set up that way (any more). i tried it to see if i could take care of this annoying update. there is a manual option to input an url, so my question is do you have a url for the "best server"?

i wouldn't advise any attempt of update in this situation because it's not reliable that all the repos would be fetch and easily you could end up with a partial update and an unstable situation. abort the update if you see something similar to this

I'm running Mint13 MATE (on a 4coreAMD box with 8G of RAM) - so as to get away from that Unity bizzo!

But the update manager has just today started showing a red cross in its shield on the taskbar - instead of the usual tick or exclamation mark.And initially taking a loooong time to do its thing. After waiting for half an hour or so it did succeed in updating mdm but that seems to be all it can do ATM.It says that it can't connect to repository.When I look in Preferences/UpdateMethod for Internet check it says google.com

Surely that can't be right - I would have thought that it should be linuxmunt or some such site?

Any ideas

TIA

Th201212 @1147NZDT- a day before the end of the world

Well whatever was going wrong with the server seems to be fixed now - the update manager process worked normally this morning

So I won't have to ask for my money back

But, interestingly, the internet check address is still google.com! - ie that must be what it is set to

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